#brian pollack

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Lloyd Knight in Elisa Monte’s Treading - Martha Graham Dance Company - photo by Brian Pollack

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"KIDS MY AGE HAVING TIMES OF THEIR LIVES..." -- MAUMEE, OHIO HARDCORE.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega B&W photo spotlight on American Midwest hardcore punk band the NECROS, c. 1981-'83. Various venues, dates, photographers: Angie Sciarappa, Kevin Salk, Malcolm Riviera, Jim Saah, Glen E. Friedman, etc...

"Hanging out on a Friday night, There's nothing to do & there's no one I like, Kids my age having times of their lives, Steady couples fucking, man & wife,

High school life it is so lame, With entertainment like a football game, Stuck here until they get old, High school spirit for the purple & gold."

-- "Public High School" (1981) by NECROS

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2032746823256492778 (Picuki 10x!!)

[dirtyriver]

Doom Patrol: The Rachel Pollack Omnibus, cover by Brian Bolland (originally published on Doom Patrol #64)

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Yakuza (1974, Sydney Pollack)

2/13/23

[omercifulheaves]

The Yakuza (1974) Damn, wanna check this out on the strength of that poster alone.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[demifiendrsa]

Grammy Awards 2024 Winners:

Album Of The Year: Midnights, Taylor Swift; Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, producers; Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Zem Audu, Serban Ghenea, David Hart, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Ken Lewis, Michael Riddleberger, Laura Sisk & Evan Smith, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Record Of The Year: “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus; Kid Harpoon & Tyler Johnson, producers; Michael Pollack, Brian Rajaratnam & Mark “Spike” Stent, engineers/mixers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer

Best New Artist: Victoria Monét

Song Of The Year: “What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture Barbie],” Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Best Pop Vocal Album: Midnights, Taylor Swift

Best R&B Song: “Snooze,” Kenny B. Edmonds, Blair Ferguson, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Solána Rowe & Leon Thomas, songwriters (SZA)

Best Country Album: Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson

Best Musica Urbana Album: MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO, Karol G

Best Pop Solo Performance: “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus

Dr. Dre Global Impact Award: Jay-Z

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'Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into two sterling films: 1960’s Plein soleil (Purple Noon) starring Alain Delon, and 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley headlined by Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Nonetheless, Netflix’s new Ripley stands head and shoulders above its predecessors (and most modern TV offerings) as an adaptation par excellence.

Over the course of its eight exhilarating episodes, all of them shot in breathtaking black-and-white by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), this stellar thriller exhibits a formal precision, dexterity, and majesty that electrifies its tale of a small-time New York City grifter named Tom Ripley (a phenomenal Andrew Scott) who attempts to remake himself in Italy by slipping into the life of wealthy playboy Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn). Cunning cons and brutal murder ensue, all of them dramatized by the show with a suspenseful elegance and psychological complexity that does justice to its source material—and, in certain cases, adds new, incisive wrinkles to the oft-told tale.

Ripley is, quite simply, a small-screen masterpiece, and credit for its triumph goes, first and foremost, to writer/director Steven Zaillian. In the three decades since he won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Schindler’s List, the 71-year-old has collaborated with a who’s who of Hollywood greats, from Brian De Palma (Mission: Impossible) and Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter) to Ridley Scott (Hannibal, American Gangster, Exodus: Gods and Kings), David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Irishman).

Along the way, he’s additionally penned the excellent Moneyball, helmed three of his own feature scripts (including the fantastic Searching for Bobby Fischer), and spearheaded HBO’s acclaimed The Night Of. Even with such a formidable résumé, however, Zaillian’s latest may be his finest achievement to date. Its scintillating style wholly wedded to its storytelling, and its meticulousness central to its simmering undercurrent of sociopathic madness, it’s a work of controlled Machiavellian malevolence, rife with tension and rich in detail and depth.

Guided by Zaillian’s virtuosic hand, Ripley is the rare example of genuine auteurist television, even as it simultaneously stands as a testament to the fact that projects are more likely to be great when they’re made by a collection of great artists. Now available on the streaming platform, it’s an early contender for end-of-year accolades. Consequently, we were elated to speak with Zaillian about the challenges of making his sensational series, collaborating with Scott and Elswit, and the enduring appeal of Highsmith’s famous novel.

Ripley is better directed than 99 percent of modern television, to a great degree because it’s been actually directed, with personality, flair, and guiding motifs and techniques. Was there any pushback to your approach, given that TV generally wants formal style to take a backseat to storytelling?

No, there was no pushback. The style that the show became… I started with the writing, I can’t write anything without imagining it. That being said, things obviously change when you’re shooting, and motifs come up and the style gets set at a certain point. But the whole time we were shooting, basically all anybody is seeing are dailies. It’s hard to tell from dailies what’s going on, you know [laughs]? Most people at the studios didn’t see anything until it was edited. So I had this great freedom to do what I wanted in terms of its look, and I spent a lot of time doing it. It was important to me that it looked good and felt good in terms of its tone, and most of the people who came to this come from film, and we approached it as one long movie.

Is the writing process different when you’re writing for yourself, versus another director?

I don’t write any differently. As I mentioned, I can’t write it without seeing it, so whether I’m writing for myself or someone else, it’s the same process. I don’t ever put in, close-up here or wide shot there. However, I do see it, so when I’m making my shot lists, I’ve already done it once before when I was writing it. But in terms of writing in a different way if someone else is going to direct it, no.

What made you want to tackle The Talented Mr. Ripley, which has been adapted multiple times before?

I’ve been wanting to do it since I read it, which I think was probably back in the ’80s. Certainly after Purple Noon but before The Talented Mr. Ripley movies. I saw it in a certain way and I wanted to try that, so when this opportunity came up, I took it. I just think it’s one of the great characters and one of the great stories that can be told over and over again.

What is it about the novel that’s allowed it to endure so powerfully over the past 70 years? Despite its age, it feels extremely relevant in today’s socio-political climate.

The idea of a character who becomes somebody else is something that happens all the time, today and throughout history. We’re strangely fascinated with it. I mean, it comes up all the time! There are articles—one that comes to mind from a few months ago was called “The Talented Mr. Santos.” I think this particular character is fascinating, certainly to me and I hope to other people. And the style of it—and I don’t mean the photographic style, but the style of the story—comes from Highsmith, where she finds these kinds of extraordinary things happening in normal circumstances with normal people. It’s something she’s well known for, and is something which I feel we can all relate to.

You’ve directed three feature films, but none since 2006. As a director, what compelled you to segue to television?

It’s the way things go. It’s strange to say that it’s easier to get a television show done than a movie, but it seems to be true, at least with the kinds of movies that I want to make. [TV] is a lot harder and it takes a lot longer, and I long for the days and the chance to make a movie again. I’m hoping that that’s what I’m going to do next, only because it won’t consume years and years of my time [laughs]. I can do the same thing and not have it take four or five years.

At what point did you decide to shoot the entire series in black and white, and what was your thinking behind that creative decision?

It started with the writing; that’s how I imagined it. Why, I don’t know. Maybe because of the period. I did want it to not feel like a postcard, and Italy, if shot in bright vibrant colors in the summertime with blue skies, can feel that way. I felt that this was a more dark and sinister story, not unlike a film noir story, and so black and white seemed to be the natural choice.

Yet despite that monochromatic scheme, you didn’t lose the classical beauty and romance of Italy.

You can’t lose that in Rome—it’s impossible [laughs]. Nor did I want to. But that being said, even a familiar place to people—like, well, you don’t really see the Coliseum except when he’s driving around with a corpse in the car—I didn’t want those places to be front and center. I wanted the backstreets of Rome more than the boulevards. Naples and Palermo are both really interesting places that photograph wonderfully in black and white.

But again, part of the story does take place on the Amalfi Coast, and that’s the place that’s hard to make sinister in color. When you have the aqua blue water and the bright sun, it’s tough. Luckily, we were at least filming there in the fall, so we didn’t have the brunt of tourism or those postcard shots, which certainly helped.

Robert Elswit shot the pilot of The Night Of and the entirety of Ripley. What is it about him as a cinematographer that makes your collaboration work so well?

It’s many things. Obviously, he’s really talented. He shoots beautiful movies. And we get along really well. He’s very intrepid—he’ll do anything, and go anywhere, and work crazy hours. He’s a workhouse in that regard. This took that kind of person. We shot for 160 days in Italy, with a one week break in the middle, and that’s tough on anybody. He just loved the idea of shooting it in black and white, and he’s a master with lighting, as you can tell when you watch it. It’s a great collaboration, we have.

The series is dominated by shots of Tom at a distance, framed in long claustrophobic hallways and by constricting architecture (such as the stairs of Dickie’s home in Atrani). Was it difficult to find the locations you needed for that visual style?

That’s one of those things when you talk about motifs… yes, I wrote a scene where Tom climbs a lot of steps, but that was a place that [production designer] David Gropman and I found. We drove from Salerno to Sorrento, all the way up the coast, and this little town called Atrani that has 800 people had those stairs, and I was fascinated by them. I said to David, it looks like an M.C. Escher drawing, and I found out much later that [Escher] had actually lived there and had drawn those very stairs. So that’s where it started. Then, wherever we went, we encountered stairs, and that’s when it started becoming a motif.

You shoot Tom’s two murders (and their aftermaths) in long, methodical sequences. Why was it important to stage those in such detail?

I had a little note scribbled on a Post-it when I started this saying, “It’s easier to kill somebody than it is to get rid of the body.” I wanted to show that. Even getting rid of a body that’s laying down in a little boat is hard to get rid of. I thought, this could be an opportunity to try something that I’d like to, which is showing these things in what feels like real time, and how difficult it is. I thought it was interesting, I thought it was entertaining, and I thought it was something I’d wanted to do from the beginning. So in the scripts, in episodes three and five, those sequences are about 35 pages long.

How did you settle on Andrew Scott for Tom?

I’d only seen him in three things, and one of them, I didn’t even see him; I’d only heard him—that was in a movie called Locke in which he did not appear, but he was a voice on the telephone. He created a really interesting character with just his voice. That was the first time I saw anything he was in. Then his Moriarty [in Sherlock] and Fleabag. With those three things, I felt he could do anything. They were so different from each other that I felt, that’s Tom. He’s got the range to play Tom.

Often in Ripley, the most important aspect of a given scene is what’s taking place beneath what’s being said aloud. From a writer’s standpoint, how do you tackle such undercurrents?

That’s always been important to me in the writing—to know, what is the point of the scene? Is it a piece of dialogue, is it an action, or is it the moments between the dialogue? Often, that’s where it is for me. Like you say, someone is lying and the other person knows they’re lying, and they play this kind of game with each other—that is the point of the scene! So those moments in-between the dialogue are what’s important. I spend a lot of time with that, and the actors got that, and they’re smart and they’re good and they like doing that. So in those instances, that was what was going on.

John Malkovich makes a late, brief appearance as Reeves, which is both a sly shout-out to Ripley’s Game (which he starred in, as Tom) and a tantalizing suggestion of future seasons. Was Malkovich’s participation always part of the plan—and was his cameo designed to keep the door open for a follow-up?

Both of those things are true. I wrote to him and explained that I’d like him to consider doing this. It’s very short, it’s just a couple of days, but maybe it’s a fun idea. And he thought it was and came to Venice and did it.

Yes, I was also thinking that if there’s another season, this character appears in the next two Highsmith books about Ripley, and he’s a great character. He does not appear in The Talented Mr. Ripley book; he doesn’t appear until the second book. But yeah, if that ever happens, I hope he’ll do it. Because he’s perfect for it.'

[augustheart]

Your top 5 comic stories?

oh fuck oh g-d this is so hard. i love so many comics. these are not ranked except for the first one beating out all the others.

Teiresias Wars, Doom Patrol vol. 2 #75-79 by Rachel Pollack and Ted McKeever.

To Regain Tomorrow, The Fury of Firestorm #62-64 and Annual #5 by John Ostrander and JJ Birch.

Chain Lightning, The Flash vol. 2 #145-150 by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Steve Lightle, and Paul Pelletier.

Justice League of America's Vibe, entire limited series #1-10, by Sterling Gates, Geoff Johns, unfortunately Andrew Kreisberg, and many, many artists.

Endgame, Blue Beetle vol. 7 #20-25 by John Rogers, Rafael Albuquerque, Roy Peniston, and Andy Kuhn

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20 Favourite Re-watched Films of 2022

My 20 favourite films I re-watched in 2022 (in no order whatsoever):

The Bed Sitting Room | Richard Lester | 1969

Mais Ne Nous Délivrez Pas Du Mal (Don’t Deliver Us From Evil) | Joël Séria | 1971 

Mayak (The Lighthouse) | Mariya Saakyan | 2006

Morvern Callar | Lynne Ramsay | 2002

Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | 1974

Attenberg | Athina Rachel Tsangari | 2010

Smashing Time | Desmond Davis | 1967

Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993

La cabina (Short) | Antonio Mercero | 1972

Secret Ceremony | Joseph Losey | 1968

I Know Where I’m Going | Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger | 1945

Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968

The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950

Under the Skin | Carine Adler | 1997

The Swimmer | Frank Perry / Sydney Pollack | 1968

O Lucky Man! | Lindsay Anderson | 1973

Frankenstein: The True Story | Jack Smight | 1973

I’m All Right Jack | John Boulting | 1959

Larks on a String | Jirí Menzel | 1969

A Christmas Carol (AKA Scrooge) | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1951

Some notes: If not for tne one film to one director.rule there would have been more Mike Leigh in the list, it was very hard to choose, but I think Naked was the right choice. I’m one of those people who likes to re-watch films I really enjoy quite a lot and looking back there are some films which reappear fairly often on these Top20 lists - and there are a couple this time - but that’s just the way it is!

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HARDCORE '81 -- ONE OF THREE MIDWEST BANDS ON TOUR IN THE EAST.

PIC INFO: (L to R): Corey Rusk (bassist), Barry Henssler (🎤), & Todd Swalla (drums), with Brian Pollack (not pictured, on guitar) of Maumee, Ohio hardcore punk band, NECROS, performing live at NYC's Mudd Club, c. 1981, while on tour with THE MEATMEN and NEGATIVE APPROACH. 📸: Glen E. Friedman.

PIC #2: Vocalist Barry Henssler of the same Mudd Club gig, c. 1981.

NOTE: These are probably the closest the NECROS ever got to writing DISCHARGE-style/war lyrics, but way more articulate and "cerebral" than anything Cal ever wrote in those early days:

"Burned & charred bodies looking up at me, I've got guns to the heads of people in category three, Wasted bodies piled in a mess, Horrible stench makes me upset.

Category 3 not looking back, Closed your eyes on nuclear attack.

Devastation that's so immense, A reality that's too intense, The naked truth upon the screen, A docudrama so obscene."

-- "Wargame" (1981) by NECROS

Source: lifted this one off my now defunct Facebook page, but it's true source has been lost to time.

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Favorite Voice for Eggman? I know you mostly enjoy the games so Bristow, Pollack or maybe how Brian Drummond's take in Prime?

I can only speak for English as I've listened to some but not all or much of the other languages but my favorite is Mike Pollock and Deem Bristow tied! I'm glad I don't have the common bias of picking the one I heard first because when I got into the series, it was through Heroes where Deem Bristow still played him, and X as the first time Mike Pollock played him, followed by Shadow 2005, all around the same time.

I think they're the two best English voices the series has ever had in general too, both the strongest most talented of their casts. (Respect to the others too though, I just honestly feel that way)

Deem Bristow's will forever be special for first really bringing the character for what he's really supposed to be to life with an English voice in the games. Deem was amazing from the first line he delivered in Adventure. His performance was so full of Eggman's crazy energy and dramatic showmanship and evil, it was the perfect choice for him.

Mike Pollock was booked as a sound alike to Deem's performance but it eventually evolved into his own take and gave the character the perfect balance of evil and threatening and humorous. There's a reason they've kept him around for 20 years, he's really helped bring him to life with tons of entertainment and fun with tons of fantastic performances.

I can never choose between them as a result and they'll never be topped in my eyes. They capture everything I love about Eggman perfectly and all my favorite line deliveries come from both of them 💜

I'm still not sure how I feel about Brian Drummond's. It almost sounds as if he's trying to sound like past voices but I think it's best when it's more unique. There's also not much to go off as he was only alive for 6 mins and died and got replaced with the Chaos Council I don't care for lol. But I think he had potential, if he changed some things up he might've become one of my favorites, maybe even right after Deem and Mike.

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Supporters of Creative Community For Peace Open Letter (Support of Israel) - Part 2/2

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Bob Ringe, CEO, Anime Entertainment LLC

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Viviane Telio, Film Agent, Verve

Adva Reichman, Writer/Director

Wayne Tighe, Chairman and CEO, The Tighe Group Entertainment, LLC

Nami Melumad, Composer

Richard Wolf, Producer/Composer, The Producers Lab, Inc.

Roni Weissman, Filmmaker

Josh Schaer, Writer/Producer

Mendel Goldman, Musical Artist, Born Entertainment

Marie Minnich, Website Developer, Lyrics On Demand

David Margolis, Photographer

David Rowell, Associate Professor, Arts and Entertainment Management, Dean College

Martin Masadao, Production Designer

Mary Jo Mennella, CEO, Music Asset Management, Inc.

Lisa Rockoff, Freelance Make-Up Artist

David Lasky, Producer, David Jay Lasky Productions

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Annah Boyer, Actor

Dana Kaminski, Actor, Voiceover

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Karen Maine, Writer/Director

Julie Hermelin, Managing Partner, Gutsy Media

Julie Carson, Retired Sales Manager, Warner Bros

Camila Seta, Executive, CAA

John Kreidman, Producer

Gary Pearl, Television and Film Producer, Aquarius Content

Sharon Hart-Green, Writer

Michael Burwick, President, Strategic Sports, Media & Entertainment LLC

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Ethan Landzberg, Independent Producer

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Tory Howard, Vice President/Partner, Atlas Artists

Matt Sherman, Talent Manager, Matt Sherman Management

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Frederic Richter, Archival Producer/Consultant

Emily Brundige, Animation Writer/Showrunner

Scott Halle, President, Gramercy Park Entertainment

Jess Parker, Actor

Brett Gursky, Writer/Director/Producer, Magic Hour

Danielle Solzman, Film Critic, Solzy at the Movies

Barry Weiss, Academy Member

Ann Cherkis, Writer/Producer

Christopher Lussier, Producer, Hollywood Motion Pictures

Anastasia Pozhidaeva, Screenwriter

Gary Kaplan, Singer/Performance Artist

James Cullen Bressack, Director/Producer, Sandaled Kid Productions

Natalie Shampanier, Screenwriter

Inon Shampanier, Writer/Director

Mark Owens, CEO, Rogers & Cowan/PMK

Dani O, Producer

Kevin Walsh, Producer, The Walsh Company

Allan Mandelbaum, Producer, Imagine

Shelly Amor, Artist

Brian Schneiderman, Writer

Heidi Peaster, Author

Jarrett Furst, Producer

Holly Spiegel, Engagement Manager, Motion Picture Television Fund

Cheynne Moye, Streamer/Content Creator/Activists, Twitch

Howard Stein, Film Professional

Suzanne Scara, Writer, Active Ingredients

Vincent Brown, Writer, Completely Plausible Prod.

Susan Gurman, Theatrical Agent, Gurman Agency LLC

Michelle De Vries, Music Supervisor, Extra Mile Music

Mary Beth Leidman, Host/Producer

Linda Kessler, Artist

Sarajane Robinson, Actor

Risa Miller, Novelist

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Maksim Kunin, President, Banyan Communications

Dagmar Jaeger, Visual Artist

Marc Simonsson, Film and TV Agent, SoloSon Media Limited

Paul Richman, Director, PR Films

David Thurman, Musician, Aweberry Records

Marnie Salsky, Documentarian

Deborah Hall, Writer

Fredric London, Actor

Winfried Hammacher, Producer, WMG Films

Jack Ferdman, Film Critic/Podcaster, Rewatching Oscar Podcast

Anne Smith, Hairdresser/Makeup Artist

Kenneth Slotnick, CEO, AGI Entertainment Media & Management, LLC

Jacob Marko, Television Producer/Artist

Miriam Spritzer, Entertainment Journalist, Golden Globes

Marian Wolf, Chief of Staff and SVP US Publishing, BMG

Brian Stern, Partner, AGI Entertainment Media & Management

Edward Fletcher, Musician

Thomas Arslan, Director

Steve Kline, President/COO, Better Noise Entertainment

FTV Teubner, Artist

Steven Cohen, Writer

Robert Harris, Founding Partner, Lazarus & Harris LLP

Victoria Selman, Author

Gregor Tholl, Author/Journalist

Na’ama Keha, Filmmaker

Max Nagler, Agent, Verve Talent & Literary Agency

Thomas Lynch, Retired Actor

Ben Solenberger, Actor

Marilee Albert, Producer/Author, Amicus Pictures

Richard Wright, Podcaster Host/Producer, TPFP

Matt Torres, Artist

Kadia Saraf, Actor and Writer

Terry Serpico, Actor/Writer

Leslie Litt, Sr. Casting Executive, Amazon MGM Studios

Betty Pillk, Actor

Victoria Gordon, Actress/Singer/Writer

Robin Blick, Musician

Andrew Atkinson, Actor/Musician, Chapel Music Company

Ross Warner, Writer, Operation Thunderball

Udo Kulvinder Jolly, Actor/Playwright

Vicky Asher, Singer

David Livingston, Director

Andreas Galk, Author

David Stone, Artist Manager, PRF Management

Jim Smith, Writer, 2thirteen22 Productions

Benjamin Shekelbergstein, Producer/Director, New World Studios, Inc.

Mark Landesman, Business Manager/CEO, ML Management Partners

Mandore Oviedo, Writer/Producer, Fenna Productions

Diana Hoffman, President, Music With Confidence

Meirav Zur, Actor/Producer

Cheryl Bloch, Partner, Backyard Pix

Homer Hickam, Writer/Author, H3 Author

Susan Cartsonis, Partner, Resonate Entertainment

Alyssa Rosenheck, Author, Speaker & Photographer

Dina Smith, Production

David Kanter, Manager/Producer/Partner, Anonymous Content

Erika Rosenheim, Talent Manager

Jeff Greenberg, Senior VP, Gersh

Suzanne Farwell, Producer

Clément Bauer, Producer, Resonate Entertainment

Tim McKinney, Actor/Director/Producer, Cubed Five Productions

Kaci Christian, Retired TV News Anchor & Investigative Reporter

Aaron Sandler, Producer, Lot 2160

Sharlene Martin, President, Martin Literary Management

Lisa Moran, Production, The Alan Parker Film Company

Susan Sofayov, Author

David Rose, Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP

Jonathan Sturm, Director, HR, MLB Network

Debbie Peiser, Director/Writer

Oriana LaRusso, Social Media Influencer

Chris Collins, Producer, Purposeful Pictures

Michael Chait, Director, TMU Pictures, LLC

Sandy Sabean, CEO, Merity, LLC

David Eisman, Partner, Head of Entertainment Group, Skadden

Emily Greenberg Hogan, 1st Assistant Director

Ross Kohn, Producer

Catherine Rich, Executive Producer

Maxwell Weberman, L&OD, Endeavor

Carole Davis, Actor

Lindsay Fabes, Actor/Director/Singer

Geoffrey Cantor, Actor

Duff Berschback, Lawyer, Concord Music Publishing

Karynne Tencer, PR Exec, Tencer & Associates

Sloan Roberts, Actor

Iris Bahr, Actor/Author

Robert Glynn, Writer/Director/Editor/Camera Operator

David Singer, Co-Chair, Content, Media & Entertainment, Jenner & Block LLP

Hal Burg, CEO, Brandview

Adam Rodman, Writer

Micah D. Sjerven, Freelance Filmmaker

Rafael Marmor, Founder, Delirio Films

Eric Kranzler, Manager/Producer, Entertainment 360

Carly Sadolf, Actress/Producer

Beth Delany, Writer

Jim Heath, Teacher/Writer/Actor

Scott Ratner, COO, OBB Media

Kyria Collins, Singer-Songwriter

Maxim Rowlands, Pianist

Chris Dawson, Visual Effects Artist

Allison Estrin, Casting Director, Allison Estrin Casting

Suzi Steiger, Freelance Art Dealer/Curator/Writer

D.J. Gugenheim, President/Partner, Incognegro Productions

Samuel Cohen, Actor

Arthur Spector, Head of Film & TV, Epic

Michael Feldman, Actor

Dalia Ganz, SVP Digital Marketing, Warner Records

Marc Stone, Filmmaker, Banjo Films

Jen Lanter, Director, SHTARKcontrast

Nathan Kaye, Actor/Musician/Music Producer/Composer, New Realms Films, Australia

Max Perlman, Actor

Jordan Serlin, Writer/Agent/Inventor, Warner Bros. Records/ICM/Pacific Swan

Toby Emmerich, Producer, Fireside Films

Peter Vogel, Producer, Blank Slate Pictures

Rebecca Shapiro, Writer/Director, Not Even the Chair Productions

Phylis Rossi, Actor

Eric Eskenazi, Founder, Brooklyn Digital Media, Inc.

Narayan & Janet Baltzo, Musicians/Songwriters, Love Bus Music Unlimited

Natalie Cassoni, Curator, Artist, Cassoni Design Gallery

Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director, Sundance Institute

Kiersten Lipkin, Choreographer/Dance Educator

Larry Kunofsky, Writer

Michael Glouberman, Writer/Producer, Global Robot

David C. Tam, Actor/Writer/Producer, Telesis Design and Development

Justin Hires, Actor, Hire Level Productions

Saul Blinkoff, Executive Producer/Director, Life of Awesome!

Cindy Bond, Founder/CEO, Mission Pictures International

Jacob Abrams, Executive Director, Abrams Theatre Project

Iris Helfand, Retired, Theatrical Wardrobe Union 764 NYC

Golan Ramraz, Writer/Producer, EGX Film Factory

Eric Schrier, President, Disney Television Studios

Scott Pollack, President, A to Z Media

Matthew Tishler, Songwriter/Producer

William Schmidt, Writer/Producer, Edelson Productiobs

Bruce Cohen, Producer, Bold Choices Productions

Roslyn Cohn, Actress

Greg Goetzman, CEO, Goetzman Group

Alex Astrachan, Director of Development, Permut Presentations

David Permut, President, Permut Presentations

Jill Littman, Partner, Impression Entertainment

Ari Luxenberg, Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, Paramount Television Studios

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Kevin Lin, Co-Founder, Twitch

Stacy Harris, Publisher/Executive Editor, Stacy’s Music Row Report

Mark Rogers, Musician, abovewaters indy

Nizar Aghri, Writer

Timotius Samanuli, Director, EMOS Global Digital

Virtic Emil Brown, Filmmaker, Artist Studio Prods.

Tim Clemente, Writer/Producer, XG Productions

Jay Karas, Director

Laurence Miller, Producer, Nimax Theatres

Birgit Grebenstein, Sound Technician

Mitchell James Kaplan, Author

Sheila Richey, TV/Film Producer, George Richey Family Music

Gero Worstbrock, Head of Legal & Business Affairs, Constantin Film

Vered Danovitch, Actor, LAV

Richard Motzkin, EVP & Managing Executive, Global Soccer, Wasserman

Matt Greenberg, Managing Partner, Greenberg Chopurian-Valencia & Associates, LLP

Neil Silvert, President and Owner, Your Grey Matters Podcast

John Benjamin David Tatum, Actor/Producer/Director

Matthew Mishory, Director

Iyar Hartogs, Influencer Manager

Dan Bleiwas, Former Major League Baseball Scout

Lisa Cohen, President, Associated Booking Corp.

Sabrina Nudeliman Wagon, CEO, ELO Studios

Peter Tordai, Chief Creative Officer, White Dog

Al Rain, Songwriter/Producer

Tahj Mowry, Actor

Val Stulman, Writer/Actor/Educator

Jonathan Kier, Co-Founder, Upgrade Productions

Gary Gilbert, Producer, Gilbert Films

Jennifer Joel, Co-Head, CAA Books, CAA

Larry Klein, Record Producer/Musician, Strange Cargo Inc

Alan Zweibel, TV Writer/Screenwriter/Playwright/Author

Patrick Schabus, Publishing Director, The Friendly Facts

Seth Faber, SVP Artist & Label Strategy, Stem Distribution

Sylvanna Seydel, Actress/Costumer, Made With Mischief

Yehuda Siegal, Actor

Betty Jo Butler, Talent Agent and Producer, Resilient Films Studios

Daniel Finkelman, Producer/Director, Danielfinkelmanfilms.com

Michael Drebert, Creative Director, Resilient Films Studios

Joseph Browns, Film Set Designer

Zach Calig, Writer/Producer

Greg Hoffman, Actor

Hallie Brookman, Agent, UTA

Victoria Cook, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit

Ed Buller, Composer/Producer/Musician, who’ll ever have me

Freddie Green, Writer/Director

Andrea Jolly, Actor

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Steve Luna, Actor/Filmmaker

Ricky Kirshner, Producer, Kirshner Events

Jacob Schiff, Agent, CAA

Gerald Petievich, Writer, Charles Carr Productions Inc

Allegra Israel, Games Producer

Allyson Taylor, Actress, Aqua Talent

Don Swayze, Actor

Josh Roehl, Singer/Songwriter

Patricia Randell, Actor

Bill McCarty, Comedian/Actor

Judy Friedman, General Counsel, PhilmCo Media

Dmitry Borshch, Artist

Michal Shany, Entertainment Attorney

David Blackman, EVP, Head of Film &TV Development and Production, Universal Music Group

Declan Joyce, Actor/Writer/Producer, Irish Magic Inc.

Kellie Adan, Spiritual Director/Writer

Michele Robins, Artist

Michael Black, Singer/Songwriter/Artist

Alan Bradley, Author/Songwriter

Richard Klagsbrun, Writer/Composer

Michael Porter, Director, Netflix

Stanley Herman, Actor/Writer/Music Publisher, Jordan/Herman/Holmes

Jon Keidan, Trustee, George Gershwin Godowsky Trust

Adam Gershwin, Manager, Marc George Gershwin LLC

LJ Strunsky, Managing Director, The Ira Gershwin Music Estate

Nataliya Kirakozova, Film Director, Founder, Dva Kapitana

Misha Aranyshev, Editor, Dva Kapitana

Dan Liebman, Actor

Ross Buckley, Senior Business Development Manager, Prime Video

Brett Rosen, Motion Picture Agent, Endeavor

Beth Suckiel, Artist, East Linden Avenue

Iris Joon, Artist, Blair Records & Publishing

Marshall Blair-Cohn, Musician/Composer/CEO, Blair Records & Publishing

Peter Samuelson, CEO, PhilmCo Media LLC

Gerry Tamber, Lead Singer/Mandolin, The Shade Tree Pickers Bluegrass Band

Seth Oster, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, The Wonderful Company

Michael Pasternak, Actor, Founder, The Amazing Bottle Dancers

David Kantrowitz, Musician

Sam Schifrien, Founder/Content Development & Production, 93 Cedar

Cathryn Wadden, Costumer

Jan Kunesh, Exec Director, Production Finance, 20th Television

Robert Avrech, Screenwriter

Sharon Lieblein, Casting Director, Sharon Lieblein Casting

Orly Sitowitz, Casting Director

Bob Kushell, Writer/Producer

Jeffrey Bank, CEO, Alicart Group LLC

Nancy Klopper, Casting Director

Larry Jenkins, Manager, LJ Entertainment

Stacey Pianko, Casting Director, Stacey Pianko Casting

Susan Paley Abramson, Casting Director, Paley Hempe Casting

Lindsay Heiman, Showrunner’s Assistant, Warner Bros.

Wendy Warren, Writer

Tim Blough, Actor

Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Casting Director, Mackey/Sandrich Casting

Josh Lieberman, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

Mark Silverman, President & COO, Fox Sports

Danielle Cohen, Global Operations and Distribution Executive

Heidi Kozak Haddad, Writer/Actress/Producer

Steven Adelson, Director/Producer, Breakout Pictures Inc

Michelle Hansen Como, Story Developer

Justin Kalifowitz, Founder & Chairman, Downtown Music Holdings

Sherrill Hayes, Writer

Andrew Bergman, CEO, Downtown Music Holdings

Peter Lewit, Managing Partner, Davis Shapiro Lewit & Grabel, LLP

Binta Niambi Brown, Talent Manager, Omalilly Projects

Andrew Howard, Personal Manager, Shelter Entertainment Group

Brenda Kyle, Television Executive

Chris Hartung, Musician

Aidan J. Crowley, Actor/Producer

JoAnne Ruggeri, Arts Administrator

Rona Menashe, Co-CEO and Co-President, Guttman Associate

Lizzie Friedman, Producer/Partner, Priority Pictures

Michael Rauch, Showrunner

Yael Bergman, Producer/Writer, YB Productions

Marissa Nadel, SVP, Integrated Marketing, Paramount

Paul Simpson, Actor

Alan Gary, Actor/Writer, Too Much Fun Productions, Inc.

Eric Gault, Musician

Noah Morris, Writer/Producer/Actor, At Liberty Entertainment Studios

Steve Vitolo, CEO, Scriptation

Noel Ashman, Film Producer/Director

Brian Ash, Writer/Producer

Keith J. Klein, Media Director

William Jeffcock, Director

Jennifer Peralta-Ajemian, Founder/Casting Director, JPA Casting

Ari Roussimoff, Director/Artist

Garry Schyman, Composer, Garry Schyman Productions

Carol Berke, Color Designer, Walt Disney Company

Ari Lubet, Manager, 3 Arts Entertainment

Samantha Korn, Talent Agent, WME

Shari Shankewitz, Partner, WME

Daniel Rak, Agent, WME

Gabriella Shink, Talent Agent, WME

Anna Anna, Agent, WME

Rachel Goldberg, Director

Hilary Michael, Agent, Partner & Co-Head of Literary Packaging, WME

Max Maulitz, Agent, WME

Nicole Rosen, Producer, Ladybug Productions

Agnieszka Kolek, Artist

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter

Samantha Leon, Talent Agent, WME

Alyssa Reuben, Agent, WME

Jeffrey Schnabolk, Senior Manager, IMG Models

Caroline Gold, Writer

Natalie Haverstock, Artist, Miss Ballooniverse Ltd

Mina Kupfermann, Artist

Alan Chebot, Director/Executive Producer, Parallax Productions, Inc.

Wade Brown, Writer

Anna-Sue Greenberg, Producer, Facet4 Media

Sheri Kelton, Manager, SRK Entertainment

Euphrosene Labon, Writer, Wise El Co

Abraham Hoschander, Attorney and Radio Talk Show Host

Nancy Josephson, Partner, WME

Nathan Ross, Film/TV Producer, Lilyrose Productions Inc.

Howard Klein, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Amir Shahkhalili, Agent, WME

Andrea Cayton, Philanthropist

David Boren, Partner, Ritholz Levy Fields LLP

Marc Emert-Hutner, Vice-President, Membership, Pop/Rock, ASCAP

Sara Laffer, Executive, WME

Orna Rachovitsky, Actress/Producer/Filmmaker, Goldart Films

Orestes Matacena, Actor/Producer/Writer/Director, Goldart Films

David Herman, Documentary Director, Double Shot Films

Kos OmIsrael, CEO, Kos Entertainment

Dolores Delaney, Writer

Rhonda Gale, Business Affairs Consultant

Kirk Acevedo, Actor

Talin Chaturantabut, Actor

John Winfield, President and Chairman, InterGroup Corp.

Neil Blair, Founding Partner, The Blair Partnership

Marilyn Lindsay, Production Accountant

Amanda Alley, Creative Executive, Skydance Media

Jim Jackoway, Attorney, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein

Ben Jacobs, Writer

Steven Keslowitz, Attorney and Author

Aaron Wilson, Writer/Artist

Richard Cannon, Photographer

Nina Mueller, Translator & Actor, COMM-art

Leo Pearlman, Managing Partner, Fulwell 73

Nicholas Frenkel, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Rebecca Wicking, Actor/Singer

Mark Mason, Playwright

Keith Lucas, Filmmaker, LBMC

Joanne Horowitz, CEO, Joanne Horowitz Management

Rod Lurie, Film Writer/Director, Perfection Hunter Productions

Raquel Munoz, Production Executive

Scott Baker, CEO/Founder, RiverArch Ventures LLC

Alexander Ney, Artist

Joel Ney, Independent Creative

Frank Eckhardt, Artist

Noah Munro Lehrman, Musician/Writer

Bar Maman, Artist, Art by Bar

Jamie Conviser, Music Producer, The Walt Disney Company

Roland Ronge, Photographer/Artist

Dvora Englefield, Partner/Head of Music Artist Strategy, WME

Brian Ross, Writer/Producer

David Sacks, Executive Producer

Hannah Lowy, Writer/Director

Bernd Schuller, Artist & Scientist

Will Daws, Creative Director, Plum Pictures

Rinne B. Groff, Playwright/Performer

Lori Silfen, Head of MGM Music, MGM/Amazon Studios

Jacob Elyachar, Chief Content Producer-Writer/Podcast Host

Michelle Jubelirer, Chair & CEO, Capitol Music Group

Andrew Heinze, Playwright, New York City, American Renaissance Theater Company

Adam Butterfield, Producer/Actor

Lisa Mierke, Manager, Mosaic

Bruce Kirschbaum, Writer/Producer

Chaim and Stephanie Glicken, Co-Founders, Digilicious Media LLC

Julia Rymer Brucker, Artist/Art Educator

Lloyd Braun, Producer

Sarah Agor, Actress/Producer

Nathan Ross, Producer

Jonnie Forster, Founder, The Penthouse

Sarah Ulicny, Writer

Holly Hubsher, SVP, Bay Mills Studios

Michael Rubinoff, Theatre Producer

Bruna Papandrea, Founder/Producer, Made Up Stories

Mitchell Akselrad, Writer/Producer

Liran Nathan, Actor

Fred Raskin, Film Editor

Sasha Valenti, Artist

David Friendly, Film/TV Producer, Friendly Films

Allison Eden, Glass Mosaic Artist

Sasha Valenti, Artist

Rachel Morrissey, Artist

Lisa Edelstein, Actress/Artist

Harel Sharon, Editor In Chief, CON-ART magazine

Wyatt Benny, Songwriter/Filmmaker, 327 Films

David Hedges, Writer

Seth Saltzman, Musician/Music Professional

Zoe Manor, Designer/Producer

Emily Leonard, Music Talent Publicity Assistant, The Lede Company

Victor Fresco, Writer/Executive Producer

Adam Shulman, Manager/Producer, Anonymous Content

Sarah Flack, Film Editor

Steve Sackstein, Background Actor

[sidewalkstamps]

Mogil-Kahn Construction Company 1957 (Photo taken by Tim Aarons in March 2023 on Collins St. between Lankersheim and Tujunga).

Kahn was Edwin “Ed” Walter Kahn, born on June 3, 1922 in Pittsburg to “Theodore and Helen H. (Meyers),” and a “construction company executive, engineer” (Who’s who in the West: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Pacific Coast and the Western States, A.N. Marquis Company, 1989). In 1935, he lived with is family in Portland, Oregon. He was still with his family in Portland in 1940 (per the 1940 U.S. Federal Census). However, he attended Fairfax Senior High School in Los Angeles, CA. Before WWII, he also attended UCLA, where he played soccer and baseball. In WWII, he was a lieutenant pilot in the USA Air Force -  a B-24 bomber pilot in the 89th and as a flight instructor. He was later a civil engineer and, if I understand the abbreviations correctly, he had gotten a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of California in 1948 (assuming Berkeley).

According to his obituary, he was a “Registered Professional Engineer and a licensed General Contractor.”

He married Arleen Barbara Rudolph on December 23, 1951, and they had two children - Gregory Michael and Julia Fran. He was the chief structural designer for General Engineering Service Company in Los Angeles in 1948 and then a partner in Pollak-Kahn & Associates, engineers, also in Los Angeles in 1949. and Mogil-Kahn Construction Company (World Who’s who in Commerce and Industry, Volume 10, Marquis-Who’s Who., 1957). He died February 5, 2016 and is buried in the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Pollak-Kahn was located at 1106 S. La Cienega Boulevard, now LB4LB Boxing Gym (Glaziers Journal - Volume 35, pg. 60, 1956). One project they had was the design and engineering of “a fully integrated community for light industry” on a 100-acre “tract of industrial buildings and plant sites” (Industrial Development, Volumes 3-4, Conway Publications, 1956).

According to the realty company, Crisby Doe Associates, “it is clear that Pollack & Kahn fully mastered the now classic post & beam glass house style pioneered by the U.S.C. School of Architecture just after war. Their work seems most closely aligned with that of Richard Dorman’s designs of the period. The living spaces are lifted, and set above the carport to allow maximum light and views from the close-in hillside setting.”

Some more info from his obituary: “He retired after 40 years as a real estate developer and as President of Kahn Construction Co., Contractors and Engineers. He had a commercial pilot's license and served as a docent at the original Museum of Flying in Santa Monica. Ed was a member of the Masons, Scottish Rites, Shriners, Commemorative Air Force, Air Force Association, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Ed is survived by his wife and best friend, Mariko, sons Greg and Winston, daughter Julie, stepdaughters Pam (Harry) Kraushaar and Andrea (Jeffrey) Lustgarten, stepson Mitchell Barnow (Dale Leininger) and step grandchildren, Shelby Powell (Brian), Kimberley Kraushaar, Brandon and Rachel Lustgarten.” (No mention of Arleen?) They also had two pets named Maya and Corey.  

I have no idea who Mogil is. Really strange how I could find out so easily who Kahn was but not Mogil. Mogil may be Norbert V Mogil, who was located at 6517 W Olympic Blvd according to the Los Angeles Street Address Directory, 1956, May (Los Angeles Public Library).

Additional source:

Who’s Who in Steel and Metals, pg. 209, Atlas Publishing Co, 1964

[vsthepomegranate]

Doom Patrol Book Four (cover detail)

by Brian Bolland

RIP Rachel Pollack

[philolz-blog]

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31Vending Machines in Singapore #4-8:14▶️

32$1 Tacos VS $113 Tacos in MEXICO!! Super RARE Mexican Food!!-19:02▶️

33La Mejor Receta De Navidad La Cocina En El Rancho-14:01▶️

34Taiwanese Street Food - Fried Fish Cake, Shrimp Fritter, Egg Rolls-11:55▶️

35Frosty Winter Hot Tent Camping-26:41▶️

36The Japanese Sandwich you should eat before it's gone 🇯🇵🥪-8:07▶️

37추운날에 딱입니다! 얼큰뜨끈 속풀리는 장칼국수 밀키트 대량생산_ Korean Spicy Noodle Factory - Mass Production-11:01▶️

38The ULTIMATE Iranian Street Food Tour ofDubai w_ Mark Wiens and Mr. Taster!!! 16 Hours of EATING!!!-44:30▶️

39Foil Boat Pork Butt-9:37▶️

40American Food - DETROIT STYLE PEPPERONI PIZZA Lions & Tigers & Squares NYC-20:02▶️

41HUGE TAWA PULAO MAKING _ AWESOME & TASTY _ MUMBAI STREET FOOD-11:57▶️

42Beautiful and delicious! Japanese grilled eel & 11 toppings of seafood over rice Korean street food-20:50▶️

43Bread BarberShop handmade candy making - korean street food-10:27▶️

44Cooking Quails in Tomato Sauce in the Wood Oven-13:16▶️

45vlog｜Monte Cristo sandwich, chicken tender curry, oyster bossam with radish kimchi and many more-24:18▶️

46All You Can Eat DISNEY BUFFET! Food Tour of ANIMAL KINGDOM DISNEY WORLD 50th Anniversary-30:52▶️

47🌮 CALL OF THE TACO 🌮----